Blogs from Lednice, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, Europe

We are resting for a few days near the border of the Czech republic and Slovakia near a place called Lednice which is part of a UNESCO protected area. Czech has lakes everywhere, mostly formed by dams built dating as far back as the 15th and 16th centuries by rich aristocrats who wanted large private fishing lakes. Some of the dams displaced local people at the time and there was similar kind of political debate at the time as there is now when a dam is built. But they are now so integrated into the natural landscape that they have become biosphere reserves and great swimming holes! The area around here was extensively landscaped in the 18th century, this time by aristocrats who wanted their own personal Greek temples and English neogothic folly castles making ... read more

Hello everyone, Well, this is our first blog. apologies for those who don´t understand or speak english, but this site amonst others only allows english. It seems ages ago since we left the UK but it´s only been 3 weeks really. So, we are in the Czech Republic now, until the 30th of May, when we go back to the UK and fly from Birmingham airport towards South America. It´s been quite busy for us, doing all these trips and visits around CZ, it´s hard work you know!!! This is our latest trip, we took our bikes ( not motorbikes unfortunately but the ones with pedals! ) put them on the train and went down for a cycling trip to Lednice, Mikulov, Valtice area in South Moravia which is best know for its wine and ... read more